Re: Re: moving mail between folders is intermittently failing
Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> Tue, 04 May 2010 22:41:35 +0300
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| Message-ID | <1273002095.3278.35.camel@hurina> |
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 12:03 -0700, Mark Crispin wrote: > A better implementation would use an index file that maps between a > UID > and a device/inode number of the file. To open and synchronize, you > stat() all the files and then correlate that with the index to build a > map. This would also identify newly-added and expunged messages. It wouldn't be enough to identify message with device/inode, because inodes get reused. So if message A is expunged and a new message B is saved (both externally to IMAP server's knowledge), IMAP server might now think that A still exists, except now it has B's contents. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
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